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  • A Selected Bibliography of Writings by Bernard Shaw Concerning Health, the Medical Profession, and Related Topics
  • Michel W. Pharand (bio)

This selected bibliography gathers Bernard Shaw’s pronouncements on health and related topics. References in brackets are to Dan H. Laurence’s Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983). References to items reprinted in The Works of Bernard Shaw: Collected Edition (London: Constable, 1930–38) are marked “Repr. in A198.” Items reprinted in Ronald Ford, ed., The Letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times, 1898–1950 (Sallins: Irish Academic Press, 2007) are marked “Repr. in Ford.”

Michel W. Pharand

MICHEL W. PHARAND, general editor of the SHAW, is the author of Bernard Shaw and the French (2000), and editor of Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths (2001) and of Bernard Shaw and His Publishers (2009). He is advisory editor for Broadview Press and for ELT: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, and general editor of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series. His latest volumes are BDL IX: 1865-1867 (2013) and BDL X: 1868 (2014). He is adjunct associate research professor of arts and science and director of the Disraeli Project at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.

“Failures of Inept Vegetarians” (signed “By an Expert”). Pall Mall Gazette 43 (26 January 1886): 4:1–2, 5:1. [C195]

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“For Humanity’s Sake” (letter on vivisection). Star (20 October 1892): 1:8. [C895]

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“The Live Controversy” (letter on vivisection). Star (24 October 1892): 2:6. [C896]

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“Vegetarian and Arboreal” (review). Saturday Review 84 (30 October 1897): 462–63. [C1229] Repr. in Dramatic Opinions and Essays. Vol. 2. New York: Brentano’s, 1906. [A75].

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“What Vegetarianism Really Means: A Talk with Mr. Bernard Shaw.” Vegetarian 11 (15 January 1898): 41. [C1248] [Statement on municipal hospitals]. Labour Echo 4 (30 April 1898): 3. [C1274] Repr. as “Municipalisation of Hospitals.” Humanity 3 (June 1898): 42–43.

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“G.B.S. Vivisected.” Saturday Review 85 (14 May 1898): 657–58. [C1278] [End Page 176]

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“Wagner and Vegetables.” Academy 55 (15 October 1898): 79. With photo: “Mr. Bernard Shaw as ‘The Dying Vegetarian.’” [C1294] Repr. in Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works (1911) [B64] and Stephen Winsten, Jesting Apostle: The Life of Bernard Shaw (1957) [B380].

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“Mr. Bernard Shaw Against Dear Body Diet” (letter on his health). Freeman’s Journal, Dublin (26 December 1898): 5:1. [C1303]

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“The Housing Problem” (symposium). Municipal Journal 9 (30 March 1900): 249. [C1331]

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“London Anti-Vivisection Society: Annual Meeting” (verbatim report of 30 May address). Monthly Record and Animals’ Guardian 2 (June 1900): 88–90. [C1336] Repr. as “The Dynamitards of Science.” Animal’s Friend 6 (August 1900) and in Dan H. Laurence, ed., Platform and Pulpit (1961) [see A40].

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“Annual Meeting of the National Anti-Vivisection Society” (verbatim report of 22 May address). Zoopholist 20 (1 June 1900): 65–66 [C1337] Repr. (revised) in A257.

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“The Housing Problem” (self-drafted interview). Sun (27 February 1901): 1:3–4. [C1357]

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“Smallpox in St. Pancras” (letter). Times (21 September 1901): 12:5. [C1370] Repr. in Ford, 5–7.

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“Vaccination Statistics” (letter). Times (8 October 1901): 5:6. [C1374] Repr. in Ford, 8–10.

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“Mr. Bernard Shaw on Small-Pox Prevention” (letter). British Medical Journal 2 (26 October 1901): 1289–90. [C1376]

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“Some Discussions” (proposition by Shaw of a resolution on vaccination). Vaccination Inquirer 23 (2 December 1901): 167. [C1378]

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“The Smallpox Crisis” (letter). Saturday Review 93 (1 February 1902): 141–42. [C1383]

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“The Smallpox Crisis” (letter). Saturday Review 93 (8 February 1902): 173–74. [C1384]

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“A Faithful Vegetarian” (letter). Daily Graphic (10 February 1902): 5:1. [C1385]

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“Vaccination” (letter). Times (18 February 1902): 10:4. [C1387] Repr. in Ford, 11.

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“Vaccination” (letter). Times (22 February 1902): 4:6. [C1388] Repr. in Ford, 12–13.

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“Vaccination” (letter). Times (1 March 1902): 14:5. [C1389] Repr. in Ford, 13–14. [End Page 177]

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“Vaccination” (letter). Times (1 April 1902): 11:5–6. [C1392] Repr. in Ford...

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